Tom Turner in his living room among some of his larger pieces of pottery. Much of his collection will be for sale this weekend.

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Paul Clark | | Citizen-Times correspondent

Renowned potter Tom Turner is selling his vast collection of pottery, and it kind of feels weird, he said.

He has loved every one of these pieces and has learned lots from them, as a practicing potter for 50-some years and as a teacher of pottery students around the country.

But he's 68 years old without any family to speak of. The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands recently asked him if it could mount a retrospective of his career. That got him thinking about how large his collection of his and others' work had become. ...